diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index 1341b738919..b123ebfc93b 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -649,6 +649,9 @@ Other
 * LUCENE-7095: Add point values support to the numeric field query time join.
   (Martijn van Groningen, Mike McCandless)
 
+======================= Lucene 5.5.3 =======================
+(No Changes)
+
 ======================= Lucene 5.5.2 =======================
 
 Bug Fixes
diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 5bba3ae9a36..30da97b7fc5 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1185,6 +1185,23 @@ Other Changes
 * SOLR-8904: DateUtil in SolrJ moved to the extraction contrib as ExtractionDateUtil.  Obsolete methods were removed.
   (David Smiley)
 
+======================= 5.5.3 =======================
+
+Consult the LUCENE_CHANGES.txt file for additional, low level, changes in this release.
+
+Versions of Major Components
+---------------------
+Apache Tika 1.13
+Carrot2 3.12.0
+Velocity 1.7 and Velocity Tools 2.0
+Apache UIMA 2.3.1
+Apache ZooKeeper 3.4.6
+Jetty 9.3.8.v20160314
+
+
+(No Changes)
+
+
 ======================= 5.5.2 =======================
 
 Consult the LUCENE_CHANGES.txt file for additional, low level, changes in this release.